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In their attempts to seek out abandoned shells of sea snails to save themselves from predators, they are prone to a ...

Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a soft tail on the other half, which they protect using the discarded shells of other animals, like whelks.

In 2010, photographer Shawn Miller spotted a hermit crab using a bottle cap as a shell. Later, he found the crabs using discarded measuring cups and laundry detergent caps. He was understandably ...

She carried it to her home and tried searching for an appropriate-sized mollusk shell, which hermit crabs usually inhabit for protection, on the beach but luck was not on her side. Amill did not ...